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it’s mouth is a fegment of a circle deprefled, and filled up in a great meafure by the 
fucceeding turn of the (hell : it confifts of four or five volutions: It’s colour is ufually 
yellowifh, fometimes white. 
It is frequent on the (hores in many parts of the Eaft Indies, and in fome other 
Cochlea fiarum elevata marglne volutionum 
ferrata. 
The little elevated Cochlea , with the edge 02 
of the volutions ferrated. 
This is a very beautiful, as well as very fingular, (hell : it is about two inches in 
breadth at the bafe, and not much more than an inch in height. It is compofed of 
about fix (piral turns or volutions, and each of thefe has a (harp edge which is beauti¬ 
fully ferrated, the denticulations rifing into a kind of fpines, which are broad at the 
bafe, and pointed at the extremity : in many politions, the (hell gives a fine refem- 
blance of a fpur with large rowels : the clavicle is deprefled at the top ; and the mouth 
of the fhell is confiderably large ; the colour varies 5 it is fometimes of a beautiful pale 
yellow, fometimes perfectly white; the inner furface is always of a beautiful pearly 
hue, 
It is common in many parts of the Eaft Indies, and has not yet been met With 
elfewhere. 
»■ ■ , * * - t • it. 
Cochlea conica elata undulato-tuherculofa . 
The fomewhat conic , elate Cochlea , with tuberculous undulations * 
This is about an inch and a half in diameter, and nearly as much in height t it con- 
lifts of about fix fpiral turns, and is terminated at top by a little roundifh button s it’s 
furface all over is elevated into a kind of undulated, tranfverfe lines; the central points 
of which are raifed into blunt tubercles: the colour on the furface is agreenifh- 
grey : the more prominent parts, and the fummit of the clavicle, are paler than the 
reft, and fometimes whitifh. 
It is common to the Eaft and Weft Indies; but, in Europe, we have not yet 
found it. 
The other fpecies of the flat-mouthed Cochlea are, 1. Of thofe which have the apex 
of the clavicle exerted. 1. The elegantly fpotted, brown and grey Cochlea. 2. The 
conic Cochlea, with red and white fpots, 3. The elegant, pundtulated, conic Co¬ 
chlea. 4. The large, green, conic Cochlea : this is often dripped of it’s outer green 
coat, and is then perfectly pearly throughout. 5. The fmaller, knotty Cochlea. 6. 
The fmooth, greenifh Cochlea. 7. The fmooth, reddifh Cochlea. 8. The undu¬ 
lated, yellowifh Cochlea. 9. The (lightly, undulated, greyifh Cochlea. 10. The 
du(ky-grey, lower Cochlea, n. The fpotted, black and white, lower Cochlea. 12. 
The ftreaked, yellow and black, lower Cochlea. 13. The Cochlea, with elevated 
ribs, and a pointed top. 14. The tuberculofe and prickly Cochlea. 15. The beau¬ 
tifully variegated Cochlea, called the Stair-cafe Shell. 16. The white Coghlea, with 
deprefled ribs. 17. The very rough, grey, and black Cochlea. 18. The dentated^ 
Cochlea. 19. The Spur-fhell, with (hort fpines. . 20. The gold-yellow Spur-(hell, 
with a filvery white umbo. 21. The totaliy-yellow, long-fpined Spur-fhell. 
2. Of thofe which have the apex of the clavicle more plain, or even deprefled 5 
there are, befide the defcribed fpecies, 1. The brown and grey Cochlea, with an ex¬ 
panded mouth. 2. The flat Cochlea, with white and brown variegations, in broad 
irregular lines. 3. The fmall deprefled Cochlea, with a dentated mouth. 4. The 
larger, dentated, mouthed Cochlea. 5. The yellow Cochlea, hollowed in the center 9 
6. The yellowifh, broad Cochlea, with the apex a little exerted. 7. The whitifti 
Cochlea, with brown lines. 8* The brown, flat Cochlea, with yellow and white 
lines. 9. The white, flat Cochlea, with yellow fpots and lines. 
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